It would be a pretty good idea to be in Lexington, KY on Saturday night. The quintet Friends & Neighbors is gonna be in town tomorrow night for an April 6th show at The Kentucky School. The Norwegian group will bring their intriguing mix of old-school free jazz and new-school avant-bop. The cadences and whirlwind free-for-all echoes the 1960s improvisational era when names like Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry were obliterating conventional jazz structures, but there’s a stomp and a sway to their music that reflects the modern approach of warping traditional music into something far less familiar. But, hell, there’s not going to be any test, so don’t feel compelled to learn or understand anything I just typed. What’s most important is to know that this is a band that has tons of energy and performs music that’ll be lively and fun and electric. It’s exactly the kind of show you want to spend your Saturday night enjoying.

The show is going down at The Kentucky School, over in the North Limestone neighborhood and sharing the same intersection as Al’s Bar, Arcadium, Beach House and North Lime Donuts.

This is the 15-year anniversary, and Event #209, of Ross Compton’s Outside the Spotlight series. Ross is one of those local music scene heroes who devotes a ton of sweatwork bringing great music to his community. There have been a ridiculous wealth of talent from the experimental and jazz pool that has performed in Lexington because of Ross’s efforts. And most of those shows, like this one, is free to the public.

The shows happens tomorrow, Saturday, April 6th. Doors open at 6:30pm, show starts at 7pm.